Historic Liberty Bell Gets Its Partial Coating of Protective Wax Renewed
The Liberty Bell has received a little "TLC," with a process that helps to ensure the national treasure will remain safe for generations to come.
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The Liberty Bell has received a little "TLC," with a process that helps to ensure the national treasure will remain safe for generations to come.
One South Jersey shore town has come up with a plan to help people evacuate -- with their pets -- in the event of an emergency.
Dr. Harry Augensen, professor of physics and astronomy at Widener University, says scientists have been interested in transits of Venus for centuries.
Waste Management plans to build a $20-million facility in Northeast Philadelphia to process trash in a way that creates pellets which can be used as fuel.
Bob Schoelkopf, founding director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, NJ, says pods of bottlenose dolphins have been back in the area for weeks.
The city of Philadelphia wants you to know that the garbage disposal in your sink can help reduce the trash stream by 10%. A pilot program will study how those food waste disposers can divert waste from landfills.
Volunteers are on the lookout along local streams, for a threatened species of shellfish.
The conversion runs nearly $10,000 extra but the natural gas equivalant costs about $2 less than a gallon of gasoline, according to promoters.
It's hard to imagine how teeny tiny toadlets -- smaller than a dime -- manage to climb the steep sides of the reservoir, let alone hop down the ramps to cross busy Port Royal Avenue to relative safety.
From vacant lot to…dirt factory? It might not seem like much of an improvement, but the University City District is in the process of transforming a vacant lot at 4308 Market Street into just that.
Laurie Olin, who led the design of the new museum's landscape on the 4½-acre downtown site, says he was mindful of the mandate to make the new place both an institution within a garden and a garden in a gallery.
The camera program came up at a city council committee hearing Friday convened on the vexing issue of illegal trash dumping.
The Morris Arboretum is holding its annual plant sale, through Saturday, just in time for the summer gardening season -- and Mother's Day.
Officials cut the ribbon one year to the day after ground was broken on the $5-million project that's designed to draw visitors through a variety of amenities.
It's the earliest detection of the virus in Pennsylvania since the state began monitoring in 2000.
"The Revolutionary War buried thousands here, and every time we do an installment, an excavation, or a root grinding, we have to have an archeologist on site, by law," says the park's facility manager.
"In the next month, the whole city will be blooming, basically from City Hall all the way to the art museum," PHS president Drew Becher says.
Turning acres of little-used paved surfaces at Philadelphia school yards into parkland is the goal of a program being launched tomorrow by city officials.
A study put 13 workers on heart monitors as they went through their daily grind, and then the same work but without the e-mail. It found a cardiac marker of stress during the e-mail period.
This past winter's beach replenishment in Cape May is going to need a little extra work. An experimental method to move the sand around produced an unexpected and unwelcomed byproduct.
The company is hoping to get control of escalating jet fuel costs. Now, what does that mean for airline passengers?
PECO customers have a chance to save $120 on electric bills this summer, if they don't mind letting their homes get a little warmer than usual. But they have to apply for the special program by Monday.
Cherry Hill's Earth Day festival tomorrow will include new ways to look at the mantra of reduce, re-use, recycle: in art.
Even though Earth Day has come and gone (April 22nd), the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education will hold its own Earth Day celebration, dubbed "Naturepalooza," on Saturday -- along with a native plant sale.
With ideal weather during Wednesday's noon hour, Independence Blue Cross and its employees came out onto Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia to invite everyone to a "Take a Walk at Lunch" celebration.
